Packet 10: Bonus 7
This economist found that, given the presence of a benevolent household head, a selfish child would still be incentivized to maximize the household’s income. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Chicago School economist, who created the “rotten kid theorem.” This author of The Economics of Discrimination pioneered New Home Economics with Jacob Mincer.
ANSWER: Gary Becker [or Gary Stanley Becker]
[10e] Becker popularized this two-word phrase for the education and skills obtained by or developed in members of the labor force and that increase their productivity.
ANSWER: human capital
[10h] This feminist economist and ex-New Zealand MP criticized Becker for assuming that men and women have the same economic experience in Counting for Nothing, a follow-up to her field-defining book If Women Counted.
ANSWER: Marilyn Waring [or Dame Marilyn Joy Waring, DNZM]
<JG, Social Science> | NAFTA-Packet-10
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 12.00 | 63% | 57% | 0% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NAFTA at Stanford | 01/17/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 12.50 | 25% | 100% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA Online | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| 2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt | 02/14/2026 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Toronto | 09/13/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Maryland | 09/27/2025 | ✓ | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Harvard | 10/04/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 6.67 | 33% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Oxford | 10/11/2025 | ✓ | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Chicago | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2025 NAFTA at Columbia | 11/08/2025 | ✓ | 5 | 8.00 | 40% | 40% | 0% |